"A 25-year-old woman was arrested Tuesday
afternoon at Rucker-Stewart Middle School in
Gallatin, after being charged with statutory rape.
Devri Ann DePriest, the Band Director at Rucker-
Stewart Middle School and an employee of the
Sumner County school system was arrested after
Gallatin police received information about an
inappropriate relationship between DePriest and a
student.
Gallatin Police said the 17-year-old victim came
to the police department Tuesday afternoon with
his mother to come clean about the affair.
"She has since been arrested and charged with
statutory rape by an authority figure. She was
arrested today at Rucker-Stewart Middle School
here in Gallatin," said Gallatin Police Sergeant
Bill Storment.
Police said that although DePriest was arrested on
school property, there is no reason to believe
that anything inappropriate happened on campus.
"The incidents occurred at her residence, here in
Gallatin at the time, which is on Kennesaw
Boulevard, in some apartment," said Sergeant
Storment.
Investigators believe that the relationship took
place between September and November of 2010. An
affidavit states that the two had sexual
encounters some 20 times."